Warrior - Color Guard Frontliner

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Focused on: Support.

Designed for:

World vs World

Overview

This frontliner support build can provide excellent team buffs for a large number of players. While in small numbers a more traditional shout or destroyer build will be more valuable, in large numbers having a single Banner Warrior on your team can provide some excellent utility to a WvW group while still doing fair amounts of damage.

The idea of this build is to reach around 1190 Healing Power before buffs, then with the 170 Healing Power gained from

Banner of Tactics

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120

Banner of Tactics

Banner. Place a banner that increases healing power and boon duration for you and nearby allies.

Banner of Tactics: 170 Healing, 10% Boon Duration

Duration: 90 seconds

Effective Radius: 600

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 600

you will be able to maintain 300 health regen ticks on anyone who approaches your banners.

It is possible to reach 400+ Regen ticks by doing a pure Healing Power gear set, but the loss of damage is not worth the trade-off.

Skill Bar

First Weapon Set

Hammer

Utility

Elite

½

Hammer Swing

Chain. Bash your foe.

Damage: 219

Range: 130

¾

12

Fierce Blow

Weaken your foe with a fierce blow.

Damage: 341

Weakness (8s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, 50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

Range: 150

½

12

Hammer Shock

Smash the ground and send out a crippling wave.

Damage: 170

Cripple (7s): -50% Movement Speed

Range: 600

½

20

Staggering Blow

Push back nearby foes with a staggering blow.

Damage: 244

Knockback: 180

Combo Finisher: Whirl

Range: 130

1

30

Backbreaker

Knock down your foe.

Damage: 365

Knockdown: 2 seconds

Range: 130

1¼

20

Healing Signet

Signet Passive: Regenerate health.
Signet Active: Heal yourself, and grant yourself resistance.

Healing: 2,320

Healing Signet: 362 Heal

Resistance (6s): Conditions currently on you are ineffective; stacks duration.

Interval: 1 second

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120

Banner of Discipline

Banner. Place a banner that improves precision and critical damage for you and nearby allies.

Banner of Discipline: 170 Precision, 170 Ferocity

Duration: 90 seconds

Effective Radius: 600

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 600

1

120

Banner of Tactics

Banner. Place a banner that increases healing power and boon duration for you and nearby allies.

Banner of Tactics: 170 Healing, 10% Boon Duration

Duration: 90 seconds

Effective Radius: 600

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 600

40

Balanced Stance

Stance. You enter into a balanced stance.

₅Stability (8s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

Swiftness (8s): 33% Movement Speed

Breaks stun

2

240

Battle Standard

Banner. Place a battle standard that revives falled allies and grants fury, might, and swiftness to allies.

Fury (3s): 20% Critical Chance

Might (10s): 30 Power, 30 Condition Damage

Swiftness (3s): 33% Movement Speed

Duration: 60 seconds

Effective Radius: 600

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 600

Second Weapon Set

Sword/Warhorn

Sever Artery

Chain. Bleed your foe with a slash.

Damage: 146

Bleeding (8s): 340 Damage

Range: 130

¾

8

Savage Leap

Lunge at your foe, striking them with your sword.

Damage: 183

Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

Combo Finisher: Leap

Range: 600

¾

15

Final Thrust

Strike your foe with a final powerful thrust that does extra damage against injured foes.

Damage: 365

Damage against foes under 50% health: 731

Range: 130

½

15

Charge

Grant swiftness to yourself and allies, while curing chilled, crippled, and immobilized.

Swiftness (10s): 33% Movement Speed

Cures Crippled

Cures Immobilized

Cures Chilled

Radius: 1,200

½

20

Call to Arms

Grant vigor to yourself and allies, while weakening nearby foes.

Vigor (10s): 100% Endurance Regeneration

Weakness (6s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, 50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

Radius: 600

Combo Finisher: Blast

Unblockable

Slot Changes

• Banner of Discipline

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  120

  Banner of Discipline

  Banner. Place a banner that improves precision and critical damage for you and nearby allies.

  Banner of Discipline: 170 Precision, 170 Ferocity

  Duration: 90 seconds

  Effective Radius: 600

  Combo Finisher: Blast

  Range: 600
  can be switched out for
  Banner of Strength

  1

  120

  Banner of Strength

  Banner. Place a banner that improves power and condition damage for you and nearby allies.

  Banner of Strength: 170 Power, 170 Condition Damage

  Duration: 90 seconds

  Effective Radius: 600

  Combo Finisher: Blast

  Range: 600
  or
  Banner of Defense

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  120

  Banner of Defense

  Banner. Place a banner that increases toughness and vitality for you and nearby allies.

  Banner of Defense: 170 Toughness, 170 Vitality

  Duration: 90 seconds

  Effective Radius: 600

  Combo Finisher: Blast

  Range: 600
  if you so choose. But
  Banner of Tactics

  1

  120

  Banner of Tactics

  Banner. Place a banner that increases healing power and boon duration for you and nearby allies.

  Banner of Tactics: 170 Healing, 10% Boon Duration

  Duration: 90 seconds

  Effective Radius: 600

  Combo Finisher: Blast

  Range: 600
  should stay on at all times for the Healing Power bump to put you over the 1360 HP threshold you need to hit 300 Regen.

Specializations

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Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Hoelbrak

18x

Mighty WvW Infusion

6x

Precise WvW Infusion

5x

Vital WvW Infusion

1x

Healing WvW Infusion

Usage

• As a tanky, supportive Warrior, you're going to be frontlining for your team. If you're not up on the front line you're not doing your job right.
• With your spec, you can keep your non-Elite banners up 97% of the time: they despawn about 6 seconds before their cooldown is up again. Be sure to carry them forward if you're able to. If you're running with friends, ask them to carry them forward if they can.
• When engaging you want to drop your banners ahead of you, closer to your opponents than yourself. The range is not huge so you want to make absolutely sure you'll be under their effects when you're actually fighting.
• The 5th skill on your banners are blast finishers. Remind your allies of this.
• Banner of Tactics increases Boon Duration on allies. The 3rd skill on your banners provides Swiftness. The 4th skill is a rush forward. Banners can be
• If you're taking a beating, don't use your adrenal burst skill. High adrenaline means more regen, and a bigger heal if you're running Healing Surge.
• You can use your Sword burst skill every time you reach one bar of adrenaline. The damage is always the same regardless of what stage of adrenaline you're at. The immobilization is the only thing that changes based on adrenaline level.
• Your Sword 2 is an invaluable escape skill. It will launch you far forward. It's great for escaping death. Combined with your Warhorn 4 removing cripple, chill, immobilize, and granting you swiftness, you should have no problem getting out of a sticky situation.
• If you're coordinating with your group, remember there only has to be one of these guys. Your gimmicky boon will cover the entire group in no time at all, so there is no need for extra Banner Regen Warriors. In fact, there's barely even a need for you!

Videos

• YouTube: PYRO vs. Scnd 9v9 Skirmish in the Edge of the Mists (Submitted by Deany Kong)